Write-Offs: 03.20.14

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$$$SEC Said Examining Hidden Electronic Bond Trading Prices [Bloomberg]

$$$Fed 'Stress Test' Results: 29 of 30 Big Banks Could Weather Big Shock [WSJ]

$$$Activist Investor Employs Hitler Video and Legal Threats [The Street]

$$$Loeb's Worst Stock Pick Ever Came Courtesy of Bill Ackman [FBN / Charlie Gasparino]

$$$Cops: Music teacher sold school instruments for drug money [D&C]

$$$Airbnb Is in Advanced Talks to Raise Funds at a $10 Billion Valuation [WSJ]

$$$Bubble or not, it's a stock-pickers market: Hedge funds [NetNet]

$$$ Police armed with assault rifles descended on a Maine man's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun. Turns out the "gun" the tree crew had seen on Michael Smith of Norridgewock was just a life-sized tattoo of a handgun on his stomach. [ADN]

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Greece to get 2 billion euros Monday; Argentina lures big money managers; Snapchat might not actually be worth $16 billion; "Prison Ahead For Woman In Vagina Gun Case"; and more.

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$$$ Goldman to Stagger Managing Director Class Starting After 2013 [Deal Journal] $$$ "Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson's Gold Fund tumbled 18 percent last month when gold and gold mining stocks slid further ..." [Reuters] $$$ Dow Average Rises to Record as Jobless Claims Decline [Bloomberg] $$$ ECB sticks to its monetary guns [FT] $$$ Facebook Unveils Sweeping Changes to News Feed [WSJ] $$$ Columbia students have been stealing Nutella [NYT] $$$ A company is looking for a portfolio manager to join a commercial real estate team in New York [DBCC] $$$ For mortgage masters, 2013 is a bond-picker's market [Reuters] $$$ Inconsistent Risk Assessment by Banks Isn't That Bad [NetNet / John Carney] $$$ Want a Secure Retirement? Move to Slovenia [NBC] $$$ "The US Government must have stolen half of a glass of water." Take The Zero-Hedge Test [Cassandra Does Tokyo] $$$ Person laughs at own joke [BI]

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Einhorn; September rate rise; A bull on adult diapers; "Will Brooker, a film and cultural studies professor from Kingston University, is spending the next year becoming David Bowie in hopes of better understanding the music legend"; and more.

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Obama wants to double Wall Street regulators' budgets; Gundlach calls market trends 'relentless and powerful'; Scottish charity seeks home for dog-sized rabbit; and more.

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"A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales"; Carson Block launches hedge fund; Dov Charney has a plan; New Yorker Posts Brooklyn Igloo on Airbnb During Blizzard, Only $200 a Night; and more.

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